> But then they failed to make the "One account all of Google" true of Gmail and Gsuite accounts (there's a long list of things you can do with one account that you cannot do with the other, and this is with Google products and features).
The clients of GSuite explicitly do not want any of that - even more, they (and the media and HackerNews) is very vocal that GSuite data should never be merged or touch the GMail account data, ML advertising systems and other non-enterprise data.
Did you consider that perhaps you're not the target market for these kind of features? It is an Enterprise cloud system after all.
(The arbitrary GSuite limitations are pissing me off as well though.)
The OP wasn't clear, but I think I know what they mean.
Years ago they offered Google Apps For Your Domain (GAFYD) - this was a normal Google account, but with your domain on it. I had one, probably for around 15 years or so, as did many other adopters and fanboys.
GSuite came around, paid, and the GAFYD stuff became free GSuite account. This is where the problems started - we didn't want GSuite, we wanted a Google account on our domain with the same services. Hell, I didn't even mind paying GSuite prices, but what I did mind was services didn't work.
So a few months ago I spent 3 days moving stuff from my GAFYD account to a normal Google one. Plenty of stuff is lost - photo metadata and free Pixel storage, Assistant functionality, tonnes of these things. All could have been avoided had Google bothered to write a conversion for this, but they didn't bother as usual.
So, yeah, your GSuite clients may not want that - understood. However some of us were grandfathered into the GSuite limitations without a route to getting back out.
Part of it has to do with the different data protection regulations and privacy policies between consumer and business Google accounts. Since very few enterprise customers use consumer smart home products, Google doesn’t want to make a special version that respects deletion policies and legal holds.
The clients of GSuite explicitly do not want any of that - even more, they (and the media and HackerNews) is very vocal that GSuite data should never be merged or touch the GMail account data, ML advertising systems and other non-enterprise data.
Did you consider that perhaps you're not the target market for these kind of features? It is an Enterprise cloud system after all.
(The arbitrary GSuite limitations are pissing me off as well though.)